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The notion of free will and its ethical relevance for decision-making capacity

BACKGROUND: Obtaining informed consent from patients is a moral and legal duty and, thus, a key legitimation for medical treatment. The pivotal prerequisite for valid informed consent is decision-making capacity of the patient. Related to the question of whether and when consent should be morally an...

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Autores principales: Zürcher, Tobias, Elger, Bernice, Trachsel, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0371-0